Five Myths about Transportation Management that’s Hurting your Business

By Gautam Kumar, Co-Founder & COO, FarEye

Gone are those days when managing
transportation was perceived as an afterthought. And thanks to uncompromising
customer expectations this arm of a supply chain and logistics is now as
important as planning procurement, managing inventory, and optimizing
warehousing.

But seamless management of transportation is easier said than done. To begin with let’s clear the cloud that has been obscuring some important facts about transportation for quite some time now. Common myths like transportation will continue to be a cost center, it does not directly impact customer retention, the sector will remain unorganized, [...]

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April 15, 2019

Why automation and orchestration are key to securing the digital organization

With
the benefits of cloud platforms and mobility becoming increasingly obvious in
the region, organizations have now started migration to digital platforms. Most
regional businesses today are using cloud and mobility solutions in some manner
or the other, often with highly varying degrees of adoption and integration.
However, no matter the degree of adoption and integration, the security
challenges of digital organizations are vastly different from those of [...]

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March 10, 2019

How the Logistics Industry is Helping the Environment

By Kushal Nahata, CEO & Co-founder, FarEye

Ever since the industrial revolution, there has been significant
changes in the environment due to human activities. Environmental degradation
due to pollution and other human activities pose a serious threat to mankind.
There is a need for all industries to embrace the goal of sustainable
development and commitment towards environmental protection. Government
regulations and growing awareness among the people has made it imperative for
businesses to come up with business strategies that incorporate sustainability
goals in their agenda.

Logistics is one of the most important part in the business value
chain across [...]

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February 28, 2019

Building a cloud strategy to boost digital innovation

Yasser Zeineldin, CEO of eHosting DataFort explains why it is necessary to build an organizational cloud strategy that includes the expectations of both business and IT end-users and generates suitable return around business objectives.

The role of cloud as an IT and business
tool is now more than a decade old. Globally, IT departments are migrating
their business applications from on-premises to public cloud platforms at a
continuous pace. Gartner, a global market research player, expects this rate to
pick up as legacy systems reach their end of life support and migration
projects get underway.

However, on the flip side, many
enterprise CIOs have still [...]

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February 14, 2019

CIOs Best Suited to Lead Digital Transformation

Digital transformation requires successful orchestration of technology across the organization and there is nobody better suited to lead this than the CIO, explains Paul Potgieter, Managing Director – UAE, Dimension Data

The traditional role of the chief information
officer (CIO) in the past was to lead the team that kept the lights on in the
IT department, building the IT strategy, and reporting to the management on how
well the IT department was servicing the rest of the organization. With the
adoption of cloud and mobile technologies by organizations and the increasing
profile of cybersecurity threats, all this began to change.

Advances and improvements in [...]

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January 14, 2019

Transformation and automation hand in hand across 2019

While organizations will relook at their structure and job roles to enable successful digital transformation across 2019, other key activity areas will be automation of customer experiences and the supply chain, explains Paul Potgieter, Managing Director – UAE, Dimension Data

Paul Potgieter, Managing Director – UAE, Dimension Data

As
organizations get moving on the digital transformation road map, they may
abruptly find themselves running more on a bumpy dirt track rather than a
Formula One race course with expected high-speed pit-stops. The learnings from
this experience are sometimes hard to accept. One of the key reasons for the
bumpy track [...]

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January 6, 2019

Top IT Trends That Will Redefine Businesses in 2019

By Sami Abi Esber, President -MDS Gulf, Board Member-Midis Group

We are living in an era
of unparalleled innovation. As new and emerging technologies continue to
redefine IT and business, the pace of change and technological advancement is
accelerating. Today, we are looking at a smarter, intelligent future driven by
technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of
things, and more. While the industry has already embarked on its digital
transformation journey, businesses are yet to realize the full potential of
these technologies and how they will shape the way we do business in the future.

In the coming years, new digital [...]

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December 13, 2018

Interview with Christina Ioannidis

Insight World is delighted to speak to Christina Ioannidis, world-recognized speaker, facilitator and entrepreneur

Christina, please tell us about yourself and your role at Aquitude.

I am the CEO (Chief Engagement Officer) of Aquitude. I am a Greek-Venezuelan, who after many years living in multiple countries, I am now a resident of Dubai. I travel a lot for public speaking, delivering training courses or consulting with clients.

Could you give us an overview of what Aquitude does? What are the current priorities and vision for the future for Aquitude?

Aquitude is an Engagement consultancy. We work with our clients to build strong [...]